In Bed with Benito: Sex Diaries Reveal Mussolini's Soft Side - SPIEGEL ONLINE In Bed with Benito: Sex Diaries Reveal Mussolini's Soft Side In Bed with Benito Sex Diaries Reveal Mussolini's Soft Side Mussolini's mistress, Clara Petacci, recorded intimate details of her affair with Il Duce in her journal. Her newly published diary reveals Mussolini as a sex-addicted anti-Semite who found Hitler "very likeable" -- and who occasionally suffered from impotence. Getty Images Feedback On one occasion, Il Duce's little Führer apparently let him down. "It was as if I were made of wood. Not even a hair on my body was erect," Benito Mussolini said in amazement. Maria José di Savoia, the wife of the later King Umberto II, had done absolutely everything in her power to seduce the leader of the Italian fascists on the beach. But Benito simply couldn't rise to the occasion. "I wasn't a man, but a politician," he said.

This, at least, was the way Mussolini, who was prime minister of Italy for 21 years and was known as "Il Duce," later described the scene to his mistress Clara "Claretta" Petacci, who then recorded his words in her diaries. Those diaries were published for the first time last week, to the considerable consternation of one of Mussolini's descendents. "This woman would be convicted of stalking today," says Alessandra Mussolini, Il Duce's granddaughter. She insists that "not a word" of what Petacci wrote about her grandfather is true. 'Your Giant' The Mussolinis never had a very high opinion of Petacci, the only woman who was faithful to Mussolini literally to the bitter end. Her father was a doctor at the Vatican, and as a teenager she rhapsodized about the "Duce, mio grandissimo Duce." She became his mistress at 19. In 1936, after a two-year separation, she became Mussolini's principal and permanent concubine, the only one who was entitled to bodyguards, a chauffeur and quarters at the Palazzo Venezia.

She called him "Ben," and he referred to himself, none too modestly, as "your giant." He would complain to Claretta, his confidante, about the tight boots he always had to wear. A sentimentalized version of her story was made into a film in 1984, with Claudia Cardinale as the lead. Mussolini was as obsessed with sex as he was with his own power. Until the day of his removal from power, July 25, 1943, he had "a woman brought to him every day, every afternoon," as his valet Quinto Navarra recalls. The women were recorded in the guest book as "fascist visitors." "There was a time when I had 14 women and took three or four them every evening, one after the other," Mussolini said. But now, he insisted, Claretta was the only one.

"Amore," he said, "why do you refuse to believe me?" Mussolini spent much of the night before March 13, 1938, when Austria was annexed into the German Reich in the Anschluss, trying to persuade Claretta not to be jealous, and his efforts were successful. As she wrote: "We make love as we have never made love before, until he has heart pain, and then we do it again. Then he falls asleep, exhausted and blissful." 'Your Precious Little Body Shall Only Tremble for Me' Mussolini himself was intensely jealous and had his "bambina's" every movement observed. "Your precious little body shall only tremble for me," he told Claretta, who was 29 years his junior. Petacci wrote to pass the time she spent waiting for him. She wrote quickly and copiously, writing almost 2,000 pages in 1938 alone.

Writing was "therapy" for Petacci, according to publisher Mauro Suttora, "because she spent her days doing nothing but living for Mussolini." For the most part, however, the pillow talk Petacci describes, interspersed with diatribes against Mussolini's wife Ráchele, is a record of sex addiction, infatuation and hypocrisy. In one instance, for example, Mussolini weeps as he describes the horrors of the war in Spain, where 150 children had just been killed during an air raid. "Just think, entire buildings destroyed, as if they were made of cardboard." But Italy had just ordered the intensification of the bombing. There have been several questionable publications in recent years that portray Mussolini as a driven man, a tragic figure coerced into persecuting the Jews by Hitler. But Petacci's notes from their love nest leave little doubt that Mussolini was anti-Semitic through and through. "I have been a racist since 1921," Mussolini confided to Petacci in August 1938. "I don't know how they can believe that I am merely imitating Hitler, who wasn't even born at the time.

One must give the Italians a sense of race, so that they don't produce any mongrels, so that they don't ruin what is beautiful in us." 1 BBC ON THIS DAY | 28 | 1945: Italian partisans kill Mussolini Search ON THIS DAY by date About This Site | Text Only 1945: Italian partisans kill Mussolini Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy until his downfall in 1943, has been killed by partisans along with his mistress, Clara Petacci, and some close associates. Their bodies were taken to Milan from the Lecco district near Lake Como where they were arrested and then killed yesterday. According to the Times correspondent in Milan, the corpses of Mussolini, Petacci and 12 Fascists are on display in Piazzale Loreto "with ghastly promiscuity in the open square under the same fence against which one year ago 15 partisans had been shot by their own countrymen". One woman fired five shots into Mussolini's body, according to Milan Radio, and shouted: "Five shots for my five assassinated sons!" Other passers-by spat on the bodies.

Most British people are shocked at Mussolini's end not knowing the full history of Piazzale Loreto. People's War memories » The executions are the first conspicuous demonstration of mob violence carried out by the partisans who until now have been kept under control by their leaders. The partisan commander-in-chief General Raffaele Cadorna said such incidents were regrettable but desirable in this case as a way for the public to vent their anger against the former dictator and his cohorts. Among the bodies were former general secretary of the Fascist Party, Roberto Farinacci and Carlo Scorza, former secretary of the party. Mussolini was spotted yesterday heading towards Switzerland by an Italian customs guard at Dongo, near Lake Como. He was driving a car in a column of other German cars wearing a German greatcoat over his uniform. Other members of his party were found in neighbouring villages. It was in Milan that Mussolini founded Europe's first fascist movement - Fasci di Combattimento - in 1919. He came to power in 1922 after the so-called March on Rome.

By 1928 Mussolini was absolute dictator and took the title of Duce, leader, and embarked on an expansionist foreign policy taking Ethiopia in 1935 and annexing Albania in 1939. That same year Mussolini signed a Tripartite Pact with Adolf Hitler's Germany and Imperial Japan. After defeats in Greece, the Balkans, North Africa and Russia, Mussolini lost popularity. Then on 9 July 1943 the Allies landed in Sicily and Italy was faced with an invasion of its mainland. Mussolini failed to secure assurances from Germany of adequate support against such an invasion and the Fascist Grand Council turned against him and had him arrested on 25 July. Marshal Pietro Badoglio was appointed prime minister, dissolved fascist organisations and negotiated an armistice with the Allies. Six weeks later the Germans launched a dramatic rescue of Mussolini. He was made head of the puppet republic of Salo - also known as the Italian Social Republic - once the Germans had occupied northern Italy in September 1943. On 11 October 1943 the Badoglio government declared war on Germany.

Clara Petacci Clara Petacci Monday, 17 November 2008 15:51 Claretta Petacci Born: 28 February 1912, Rome Died: 28 April 1945, in front of the Villa Belmonte near Lake Como. Age: 33 Cause of death: Executed by gunshot to the chest by a plumber named Moretti . Notable because: Mistress of Mussolini, Clara Petacci was shot with him, killed while wearing no underwear, and later hung upside down in front of an Esso petrol station - photos of which became very widely circulated. In her case, standing by her man did not work out well - resulting in a fatal chest wound, being strung up upside down, and urinated on by an angry mob. Clara Petacci was an upper class Roman who became Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's mistress. Her father had been the personal physician to the Pope. She was twenty-nine years younger than Mussolini. Petacci was with Mussolini to the end.

On 27 April 1945, when a convoy of escaping Italian Social Republic members, including Mussolini, was captured by Communist partisans, it is said that Petacci was offered the opportunity to go unmolested, but there is no solid evidence for this. At ten minutes past four on the afternoon of April 28, 1945, a plumber named Moretti shot and killed Mussolini and Clara Petacci, who was not wearing any underwear, in front of the Villa Belmonte near Lake Como. Next to Moretti—who was later tried for theft and other misdeeds—was one Colonel Valerio, whose submachine gun had jammed while he was trying to shoot the defenseless couple. Valerio left the assassinated couple’s corpses lying on the road, later to be dragged to Piazzale Loreto in Milan and hanged upside down from a petrol station’s roof girders. The cheering mob even had the courtesy to tie a rope to la Petacci’s skirt to hide her nakedness before a raging crowd were allowed to kick and urinate on the former leaders. Many photographs show the bodies of Mussolini and Petacci hanging between four other bodies.

Mussolini and Petacci are together in the middle with two bodies hanging to either side of the couple. However, this photograph taken from the rear shows three bodies hanging on Mussolini's side to the right of the couple as seen from the rear. This indicates that Mussolini and Petacci were hanged upside down with five others at the petrol station. The sight of Claretta's female forms has been subject to more than political interest - the 33 years old woman looked attractive even when she was dead and degraded. Benito Mussolini executed - Apr 28, 1945 - HISTORY.com Benito Mussolini executed Publisher A+E Networks On this day in 1945, “Il Duce,” Benito Mussolini, and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they attempted to flee to Switzerland. The 61-year-old deposed former dictator of Italy was established by his German allies as the figurehead of a puppet government in northern Italy during the German occupation toward the close of the war. As the Allies fought their way up the Italian peninsula, defeat of the Axis powers all but certain, Mussolini considered his options.

Not wanting to fall into the hands of either the British or the Americans, and knowing that the communist partisans, who had been fighting the remnants of roving Italian fascist soldiers and thugs in the north, would try him as a war criminal, he settled on escape to a neutral country. He and his mistress made it to the Swiss border, only to discover that the guards had crossed over to the partisan side. Knowing they would not let him pass, he disguised himself in a Luftwaffe coat and helmet, hoping to slip into Austria with some German soldiers. His subterfuge proved incompetent, and he and Petacci were discovered by partisans and shot, their bodies then transported by truck to Milan, where they were hung upside down and displayed publicly for revilement by the masses. Related Videos She Was Called Mussolini’s “Jewish Mistress”, But She Was Much More Than That | Arthur Thinks (He Thinks) Arthur Thinks (He Thinks) by thinkingarthur This is based on “Il Duce’s Other Woman: The Untold Story of Margherita Sarfatti, Benito Mussolini’s Jewish Mistress, and How She Helped Him Come to Power”, written by Philip V. Cannistraro and Brian R.

Sullivan, and published by William Morrow and Company in 1993. If you are interested in Italy (or more broadly, Europe, or even more broadly, the world) during the first half of the 20th century, this book is one to read. First, it is true that Sarfatti and Mussolini had a close relationship, which included a sexual relationship, for about 2o years, and that their post-sexual relationship continued after that, with some ups and many more downs, until Mussolini’s capture and death in 1945. Sarfatti lived another 15 years, dying in October 1961. But one should not view their relationship as based on sex. Much more was involved, as we shall see. And, of course, Mussolini is renown for his sexual appetite.

Although he remained married to one woman from 1915 until his death (and had five children with her), he had at least three other serious, long term sexual relationships: (1) Ida Dalser, with whom he was involved before he met Rachele, and with whom he had a child, (2) Sarfatti, and (3) Clara Petacci, a young woman who took Sarfatti’s place as a favorite of the dictator and who was killed along with him in 1945, when she was only 33. More than that, Mussolini was known for his “one day stands”; he apparently had a young woman brought to him most afternoons after lunch either while he was in his Rome office other on the road elsewhere in the country. (A perk, I suppose, of being a dictator.) But all of that is simply an aside. For the role played by Sarfatti (with whom, by the way, Mussolini clearly had a deep emotional, as well as physical, relationship), went far beyond sex and company.

And, yes, Margherita Sarfatti was Jewish, although she herself was non-religious, and she converted to Catholicism in 1928 (she was 48 at the time), becoming a non-observant Catholic, rather than a non-observant Jew. This was after he husband, Cesare Sarfatti, a Jewish lawyer more committed to the religion than his wife, had passed away. Not only was Sarfatti Jewish, but she was born to one of the wealthiest Jewish families in Venice, where one of her grandfathers had been the mayor (the first Jewish mayor of the city) and the other a businessman who, with his associates, was responsible for developing the Venice Lido as a beach resort. Her family lived sequentially in two large palazzi in Venice, and she never lacked for money, position or culture. But she was a rebel, and a very smart one, from an early age, and she and her husband, also from a prominent Jewish family, became radical socialists around the turn of the century, engaging in journalistic efforts, the labor movement and (in Cesare’s position) as a supporter for the legal rights of the working and peasant classes.

It was in this way that she met the young Benito Mussolini (3 years her junior), who was at the time also a radical socialist. They worked closely together on many projects and, as Mussolini remained married to Rachele after their affair started, so she remained attached to Cesare until his death, with whom she had three children. Turn of the century socialists were, of course, universalists. They knew no national or ethnic boundaries in their goal to establish a just society world (or at least Europe) wide. But the test came with the first World War, as socialist parties throughout Europe became nationalist socialist parties, their members finding themselves opposing each other in the trenches. Universalism became quickly a thing of the past. In the meantime, Italian politics, never smooth, became rougher. What should Italy’s role be in Europe. On which side of the war should it be fighting? What should be the basis of Italian political decision making? How participatory should Italian democracy (if it was ever that) be? Why should one think that the peasants would vote in the best people? What should be the relationship between the Catholic church and the state?

What should be the boundaries of Italy (there were questions about the Alpine boundary with Austria, and thoughts that Trieste and Fiume on the Adriatic should end up in an expanded Italy, not a new Yugoslavia)? And then there was the tragedy and the empowerment of the war. The war took the life of Sarfatti’s oldest son, Roberto, at age 17, a tragedy she never imagined could happen, and one she never forgot. The war gave Mussolini a chance to demonstrate his charismatic leadership, something he obviously never forgot. Throughout this long difficult period, there were three Sarfattis. There was Margherita Sarfatti the regular sexual companion of Mussolini. There was Margherita Sarfatti, the polemic journalist who wrote both under her own name and as a ghost writer for Mussolini, and who was the author of a best selling biography of Mussolini, which helped bring him to national and world-wide attention. And then there was, strange as it may seem, the Margherita Sarfatti, who more than anything loved art and art history, and who wrote widely on the subject, becoming one of the most prominent experts on Italian art of all ages, including Renaissance art, and Italian modernist art.

Throughout this time, and until the mid-1930s, Italian Jews (a relatively small community, but a very old community with many prominent members in business, professional, intellectual and artistic pursuits) were considered as Italian as Italian Catholics. The country was proudly anti-anti-Semitic. Thus, Mussolini’s dalliances with a Jewish lover was not itself of interest. Italian politics got more confusing after the war ended. For those who had thought the war would bring an extension to Italian territory, the Versailles arrangements were a major disappointment. The Italians, looking to increase their European prominence, were frustrated. The working class, looking for improving economic and work conditions, were dissatisfied. And the problems were increasingly blamed on the government (or the series of governments). During this time, the prominence of Mussolini, no longer a pure socialist, but now the creator of a new quasi-socialist “fascist” conception of government, where the leaders would not be chosen democratically (because this is not a way to insure strong leadership) but where the government would reach into the depths of society to insure a better life for all, not shying away from violence where necessary for the good of the country.

And eventually, Mussolini, with Sarfatti still by his side as adviser, ghost writer, diplomat (she got along with everyone) and polemicist, was asked to try to form a government. And he did. It was then that everything began to fall apart. Clearly, power went to Mussolini’s head, in the most destructive of ways. When he entered office, for example, he was militantly anti-German power, anti-Hitler, whom he thought a maniac. But he was also afraid of Britain and France, and of course bitterly opposed to the Bolsheviks. He felt he needed to play off one against the other. The first opportunity came during the Spanish Civil War, when Italy decided to help arm the Spanish fascists of Franco sending in thousands of troops and hundreds of aircraft. Now, suddenly, Italy was allied with Germany, and the first hints of Mussolini’s anti-semitism crept in. He began to talk about the Jews as a distinct group, keeping to themselves, refusing to assimilate, hungry for power.

Of course, eventually Italy and Hitler’s Germany found themselves full blown allies, and in the mid-1930s Italy issued laws limiting Jewish participation in the professions, abolishing marriage or employment relationships between Christians and Jews, and so forth. Sure, they never set up concentration camps, or created modern ghettos, and the Italian government did not participate in the “Final Solution”. But the Italians who happened to be Jewish were no longer considered as full blown Italians. And, as Margherita found out, conversion did not change her status. It was during this period that the Sarfatti-Mussolini personal relationship deteriorated, and their sexual relationship ended. Would this have happened anyway, or did Sarfatti’s Jewish background play the major role?

It is hard to answer this question, but Sarfatti for the first time found it difficult to meet with Mussolini, found that his support of her art work (including her support for young artists and her curating of large scale art exhibitions around the country) ending, and learned that he no longer wanted her to write her articles about the positives of the fascist movement, which she had been doing for a large number of periodicals, including American ones, under her own name and under the nameof Mussolini. She still seemed to feel something for her former lover, but she was violently opposed to the turns he had taken politically – his support of Franco in Spain, his invasion of Ethiopia to prove Italy was a major colonial power, and of course his alliance with Nazi Germany. He obviously no longer wanted her advice, he sometimes denied they ever had a relationship, and she found that many of her former friends and allies in the power circles of Italian government and culture were no longer friends. She began to worry about her own safety, and that of her family.

Eventually, Sarfatti traveled extensively in the United States, and left Italy altogether (along with her one living son and his family – her daughter and family remained in Rome during the war), living for a while in Paris and then splitting her time between her children and grandchildren in Montevideo and the large Italian community in Buenos Aires. After the war, she returned to Italy, living a more private life and writing about art and art history, until she died at age 80. It’s an interesting story of a brilliant and socially dedicated woman, who reached the pinnacles of power and saw them disappear from her grasp, as the man she knew and the country she knew seemed to change so rapidly. I have only touched upon the details in this brief report. I suggest you read the book for more. Share this: Benito Mussolini's women - Telegraph World War Two Benito Mussolini's women Benito Mussolini had two wives, several mistresses and dozens, possibly hundreds, of casual lovers during his lifetime. Here are the most important women in his life. Italian dictator Benito Mussolini Follow Ida Dalser: Mussolini struck up a relationship with the beauty therapist in around 1909.

They may have married in 1914, although no records survive. In 1915 she bore him his first child, which they named Benito Albino Mussolini. But the couple soon became estranged and Mussolini subsequently tried to expunge both Dalser and his son from his life, regarding them as an embarrassment, particularly after he married another woman, Rachele Guidi. Dalser was eventually sent to a psychiatric hospital and her son also ended up in an asylum, dying at the age of 26. Rachele Guidi: The deterioration of Mussolini's relationship with Ida Dalser was in part due to the romance he struck up with Rachele Guidi, whom he married in 1915. She bore him three sons and two daughters, and seemed willing to overlook his many infidelities. At the end of the war, with her husband and his mistress being hunted by partisans, she too tried to flee Italy. But she was captured and handed over to US forces before being released after a few months' internment. She subsequently ran a restaurant in the village in which she grew up in Emilia Romagna.

Clara Petacci: She was just 20 when she became the mistress of the fascist dictator, who was married with five children and 29 years her senior. In April 1945, with total defeat looming, the couple tried to escape to Switzerland but were caught by partisans in northern Italy, executed and strung up by their feet from a petrol station. Her diaries, in which she documented her relationship with the fascist leader, were published for the first time in 2009. "Do you know, my darling, that last night at the theatre I undressed you at least three times?" she recalled him telling her in 1938. Margherita Sarfatti: Sarfatti was the daughter of a wealthy Italian Jewish lawyer and grew up in a grand palazzo in Venice. Despite being married, she embarked on an affair with Mussolini in around 1911. But the romance did not protect her from Mussolini's growing anti-Semitism. When the fascist government introduced race laws targeting Italian Jews in 1938, she fled the country and moved to Argentina and Uruguay, working as a journalist. She returned to Italy after the war.

Casual flings: The dictator, who liked to present himself as an insatiable Latin lover, is thought to have had hundreds of casual lovers, many of them Italian women who offered themselves to him out of admiration for his fascist beliefs. He lost his virginity at the age of 17 to a prostitute. He later described her as "an elderly woman who spilled out lard from all parts of her body." Once he had risen to power as head of the fascist party, his valet claimed that Il Duce had "a woman brought to him every day, every afternoon". They were recorded in the guest book of his official residence, Palazzo Venezia in Rome, as "fascist visitors". Mussolini himself liked to brag about his love life. "There was a time when I had 14 women and took three or four them every evening, one after the other," he once said. Gaddafi, Mussolini, and “Dog Killing” | News About Iran Gaddafi, Mussolini, and “Dog Killing” Mussolini’s death was worse than Gaddafi’s death, but many have a terrible memory.

They also have forgotten how Norwegians felt anger at Breivik (they wished they could torture him), who had killed 80 people in 2 hours, not hundreds of thousands in 40 years. Those who think the Libyans are savage because they killed the savage Gaddafi like a dog, should know that the Italians were more savage when they killed Mussolini, the savage fascist of Italy, in 1945. Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were captured by the partisans on 27 April 1945, near the village of Dongo, as they headed for Switzerland to board a plane to escape to Spain. The partisans and the people beat Mussolini and Petacci to death, and the next day, they were both summarily executed. Then the mutilated bodies of Mussolini and his mistress were hung upside down outside the forecourt of a Milan garage, and the people stoned their bodies and ridiculed and abused them . Mussolini’s death, and also Ceausescu’s death during the Romanian Revolution in 1989, was more tragic than Gaddafi’s death. But they all were savage dictators who had taken their society back to the Stone Age.

They were like Khamenei, Assad and other savage dictators who systematically kill and torture the people and destroy and plunder everything. Mussolini was a symbol, and his tragic death was very symbolic, tragic, and meaningful. He and his mistress, along with most of the members of their 15-man train, primarily ministers and officials of the Italian Social Republic, ,were tortured, killed, mutilated, kicked, stoned, hanged, and ridiculed. If you compare what Italians did in Milan, with what Libyans do in Misrata and that large freezer, then Libyans seem really modern. On 29 April 1945, the bodies of Mussolini, Petacci, and the other executed Fascists were loaded into a moving van and trucked south to Milan. After being shot, kicked, and spat upon, the bodies were hung upside down on meathooks from the roof of a gas station. The bodies were then stoned by civilians from below. The corpse of Mussolini and other fascists became subject to ridicule and abuse. Some even say Petacci had been gang-raped before she was shot.

If the stupid lefts try to compare Libyans with Italians, then Libyans seem like angels and saints, while Italians seem like the ancient savages and those who enjoyed the Gladiator Savageness. But the truth is that you can not judge Italians, and also Libyans. You should read the history of Italy under Mussolini, and then you can understand what they did to Mussolini was quite normal. What would the Britons and other Europeans have done to Hitler, if they had captured him alive? Hitler knew the answer. In fact, when Hitler heard how Mussolini had been executed and put on public display, he vowed he would not let this happen to him. A few days later Hitler and Eva Braun killed themselves, and their bodies were burned in a hole outside his Berlin bunker, as he had ordered. In fact, all savage dictators should know that the people will not treat them like animals, because many respect the animals and their rights. “Dog Killing” (Sag Koshi) is the title of an Iranian movie that is about a cruel charlatan who destroys many lives and betrays many friends, and finally the victims decide to kill him like a dog.

In fact, some think “Dog Killing” is a punishment for those who live like a rabid dog. But what the people do to the savage dictators is beyond “Dog Killing”, because compared to the savage dictators, the rabid dogs seem like saints or angels. So, the people don’t kill the savage dictators like dog, but they kill the savage dictators like Mussolini (or Gaddafi). The Italians beat Mussolini and Petacci to death. They tortured the savage Mussolini and his prostitute, and the pictures show what they did to the savage Fascists. In 1945, a Time’s reporter reported: “One woman fired five shots into Mussolini’s body, and shouted: “Five shots for my five assassinated sons”. Others cried: “He died too quickly! He should have suffered!” But the hate of many was wordless. They could only spit. While I watched, a civilian tramped across the bodies and dealt Mussolini’s shaven head a terrific kick. Someone pushed the twisted head into a more natural position again with a rifle butt. A bullet had pierced Mussolini’s skull over the left eye and emerged at the back, leaving a hole from which the brains dripped.

Mistress Petacci, 25, wore a white silk blouse. In her breast were two bullet holes ringed by dark circles of dried blood”. So, when Libyans say: “Gaddafi made our lives hell. We wanted to see him dead with our own eyes. Who cares if it’s not dignified for him. That was not his concern for any of the people here”, and when they wait in a long queue for seeing Gaddafi body, it’s quite modern and normal. Milan was like Misrata. It was in Milan that Mussolini founded Europe’s first fascist movement in 1919, and then he came to power in 1922 after the so-called March on Rome. Following the collapse of the Fascist Dictatorship, Mussolini and the remanants of his command along with the Germans were in Milan. And we all know what Gaddafi did to Misrata and its people. In 1945, the Time’s reporter also added: “When I and other correspondents reached the scene, a howling mob was struggling for place beside the heap of cadavers.

Partisan guards vainly fired rifle and pistol shots into the air to keep the crowd back.” Now, some say: “Dont Judge The Libyan People For Killing Gaddafi. Gaddafis death was like Mussolini’s death in 1945, and Ceausescu’s death in 1989. They were also entirely understandable, as is Gaddafis.” In fact, the savage dictators who take the human society back to the Stone Age, can not expect their victims to treat them like a modern and civilized man. They and their behaviors and their system belong to the Stone Age, so their final days should be like that age, as well. The savage Mullahs and their mercenaries in Iran and outside Iran, can be sure that if they continue to take Iran back to the Stone Age, what Iranians will do to them and also to the Monarchists, i.e. the last Mullah and the last King, will be something worse than what Italians did to Mussolini and the savage fascists in Italy; something that the world would never forget it.

Rate this: April 28, 1945 : Benito Mussolini executed Introduction On this day in 1945, “Il Duce,” Benito Mussolini, and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they attempted to flee to Switzerland. The 61-year-old deposed former dictator of Italy was established by his German allies as the figurehead of a puppet government in northern Italy during the German occupation toward the close of the war. As the Allies fought their way up the Italian peninsula, defeat of the Axis powers all but certain, Mussolini considered his options. Not wanting to fall into the hands of either the British or the Americans, and knowing that the communist partisans, who had been fighting the remnants of roving Italian fascist soldiers and thugs in the north, would try him as a war criminal, he settled on escape to a neutral country. He and his mistress made it to the Swiss border, only to discover that the guards had crossed over to the partisan side. Knowing they would not let him pass, he disguised himself in a Luftwaffe coat and helmet, hoping to slip into Austria with some German soldiers.

His subterfuge proved incompetent, and he and Petacci were discovered by partisans and shot, their bodies then transported by truck to Milan, where they were hung upside down and displayed publicly for revilement by the masses. Article Details: April 28, 1945 : Benito Mussolini executed Author April 28, 1945 : Benito Mussolini executed URL 'Hitler Really Likes Me a Lot' - SPIEGEL ONLINE 'Hitler Really Likes Me a Lot' In Bed with Benito Sex Diaries Reveal Mussolini's Soft Side Getty Images Part 2: 'Hitler Really Likes Me a Lot' November 26, 2009 03:38 PM Feedback After returning from the Munich Conference in 1938, he summoned Claretta. "The Führer is very likeable," Il Duce told his mistress. "Hitler is an emotional person at heart. When he saw me, there were tears in his eyes. He really likes me a lot." Mussolini was, however, somewhat irritated by Hitler's fits of rage. "Sparks flew from his eyes, his body was shaking and he could only pull himself together with difficulty.

I, on the other hand, remained completely calm." In Mussolini's opinion, it was he who had saved the conference. "I was always the one who brought them back to the matter at hand, they got lost in discussion. Hitler sincerely adores me." After the conference, Mussolini and Petacci went on a vacation to the beach. Mussolini, while flipping through French newspapers, suddenly got into a bad mood. "These disgusting Jews, they should all be destroyed," he said. "I will create a bloodbath the way the Turks once did. I will isolate them and imprison them. They will come to know the steel fist of Mussolini. It is time that the Italians realize that can no longer exploited by these snakes." Five weeks later, he had pushed through a new race law that declared "mixed marriages" invalid. When Pope Pius XI objected, he became enraged. "Never before has a pope done so much harm to religion as this one. He has already lost almost the entire world." And, he continued, "he does dishonorable things. How can he say that we are the same as the Semites?

We have fought with them for hundreds of years, and we hate them." It is an age-old story and not one that is exclusive to Italy: The story of short, powerful men who wear their hearts between their legs, surround themselves with showgirls and, in the end, are only attracted by anything that is even more powerful and unscrupulous than they are. One sentence that Petacci attributed to Mussolini, "I am like Napoleon," could just as easily have been uttered by one of his modern-day successors, someone who likes to be called, not il Duce, but il Cavaliere or "Papi." Sweet Nothings After he was deposed in 1943, Mussolini, with Hitler's help, established the puppet state of the Republic of Salò on Lake Garda. Carletta remained behind in Rome, but the couple eventually reunited and, after fleeing and being arrested by Italian partisans, she and Il Duce were executed together in April 1945. Petacci entrusted her diaries to the countess Rina Cervis. In 1950 the police unearthed them from where they had been hidden in the countess's garden.

After that, they were kept in a box in the national archive, not to be released until 70 years after they had been written. But was it truly just "pillow talk," as some Il Duce experts contend? And, in Petacci's case, did the old Roman saying hold true: Tell your lover everything, just not the truth? "Of course, the sweet nothings aren't worth discussing. But the supposed remarks on politics are interesting," says Lutz Klinkhammer of the German Historical Institute in Rome. "When it came to politics, why would Mussolini want to hide anything from her?" he asks. "Petacci wasn't interested in politics. For instance, her notes on Il Duce's anti-Semitism essentially confirm the conclusions of our most recent research." When the miniature Salò Republic came to an end in April 1945, Mussolini offered his mistress the option of fleeing to Spain, but Petacci declined. A short time later, she was hanging upside-down next to Il Duce above the Piazzale Loreto in Milan, shot by partisans.

A passerby is believed to have said: "One thing you can say for her: She did have nice legs." Translated from the German by Christopher Sultan Part 2: 'Hitler Really Likes Me a Lot' Article...

Question: Who had a mistress called Clara Petacci?
Answer: BENITO MUSSOLINI